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Children will explore rescue vehicles, including a fire truck, ambulance, police car, helicopter, and more. From a fire truck to a Coast Guard boat, this helpful book will have children rescue ready!

Safety is important, no matter the location, whether on land or on sea! Children can explore the many boats that are used on the ocean. Tugboats, police boats, ice breaker boats, and rescue boats, all have a different purpose for helping people be safe or to provide rescue on the sea.

How do planes help put out forest fires? What are the different kinds of tow trucks? Find answers to your questions about emergency vehicles in Machines to the Rescue!

Kids will love this adorable story about Blazie, a brand-new fire engine that dreams of working in a big city. Find out what happens when Blazie is delivered to Spring Gardens, a small town where there are no tall buildings and no crowds of people. Authentic sound effects coupled with lively music will have young children waiting to discover how Blazie saves the day! This sweet story reinforces early literacy skills that young listeners will need for school success.

Whaling in the Arctic waters off Alaska’s coast was as dangerous as it was lucrative in 1897. In that particular year, winter came early, bringing with it storms and ice packs that caught eight American whale ships and about three hundred sailors off guard. The ships were imprisoned in ice with no hope of escape. With limited provisions on board the ships that hadn’t been crushed by the ice, there was little hope that these men could survive until warmer temperatures arrived at least 10 months later. Martin Sandler tells the incredible true adventure story of three men who were ordered by President McKinley to carry out an overland rescue in the dead of winter.

From debut author Jeff Seymour and bestselling illustrator Brett Helquist (Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events) comes this breathtaking fantasy adventure, starring an extraordinary new heroine and set in an unforgettable world where ships can fly. It takes a very special crew to keep...

On October 23, 2012, with Superstorm Sandy fast approaching, Captain Robin Walbridge made the fateful decision to sail the HMS Bounty from New London, Connecticut, to St. Petersburg, Florida, believing the wooden ship, a replica of the original, famous Bounty, would fare better at sea than at port. He told the crew that anyone who did not want to come on the voyage could leave the ship and there would be no hard feelings. No one took the captain up on his offer, and this decision would have fatal consequences.

Two laugh-out-loud superhero stories by award-winning author Phil Earle, now available in one action-packed bundle. Stanley is a normal little boy, with a very unusual family. His Dad is a superhero, saving the world from disasters, aliens and bad guys. Even a trip to the seaside with his Gran...

From the award-winning team who created Masterpiece comes a charming chapter book about a young bulldozer who is nervous about making friends and starting school. Bulldozer is shy when it comes to making new friends and nervous about starting school. But when he meets his new neighbor Millie and...

In the midst of the Blizzard of 1978, the tanker Global Hope floundered on the shoals in Salem Sound off the Massachusetts coast. When the Coast Guard heard the Mayday calls, they immediately dispatched a patrol rescue boat. But within an hour, the Coast Guard rescue boat was in as much trouble as the tanker - both paralyzed in unrelenting seas. Enter Captain Frank Quirk, who was compelled to act. Gathering his crew of four, Quirk plunged his 49-foot steel boat, the Can Do, into the blizzard.

On the night of February 18, 1952, during one of the worst winter storms that New England has ever seen, two oil tankers just off the shore of Cape Cod were torn in half by the force of the storm. This middle-grade adaptation of an adult nonfiction book tells the story of the shipwreck and a harrowing Coast Guard rescue when four men in a tiny lifeboat overcame insurmountable odds and saved more than thirty stranded sailors.